Strong Towns is partnering with Just Accounting for Health and Urban3 in a project to uncover the presence, and effects, of biases in tax assessment standards.
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Sarah Davis is fresh out of planning school and interned for Strong Towns and Urban3 this summer.
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One family’s history tells volumes about the development of Kansas City since the 1950s.
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Storage facilities have no place in a productive, walkable downtown. Here’s a case study showing why, and how to deal with the problem.
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Cate Ryba is Chief Operating Officer at Urban3, as well as a former city councilor, dog park creator, neighborhood revitalizer and fun run founder.
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The inequities in the tax assessment system are national. But the solutions will have to come from the bottom-up.
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A Studebaker factory once brought jobs to South Bend, IN, but what’s happened to the city (and its infrastructure) now that the factory has closed its doors?
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Cities must be discerning in how they incentivize development. Let’s look at two examples to see what to do, and what not to do.
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Let’s #DoTheMath in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
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Has your property tax bill skyrocketed this year? It’s worth taking a deeper look into how your county or city does their assessments...
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Collier County's standards for new development on rural land repeatedly emphasize “innovative” growth...but when we look at their proposed mega-developments, it's really just business as usual.
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How one Colorado town is breaking away from its former dependence on mining.
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A model of what the future could look like for communities that depend on extractive industry, if they make the right investments.
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Cities in Wyoming have become dependent on extractive industry. Here’s how and why they need to get out of this impossibly fragile situation.
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The suburban growth model might as well be called an extractive industry: it deals just as much of a beating to communities that embrace it.
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Wise insights and advice for anyone who wants to make their town stronger in the coming year.
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To have enduring prosperity, a community cannot squander its land; it must develop in ways that are financially productive.
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Decades of disinvestment have trapped neighborhoods in poverty. Cities can do something about it—with tools they already have—and build lasting prosperity that benefits everyone.
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It can be intimidating to try and wade through a 200-page government PDF filled with obscure acronyms and confusing charts. It doesn’t have to be. We’re lifting the veil on city budgets.
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Before the age of the freeway, Kansas City was famously a streetcar city. The pattern of development that streetcars fostered was a highly productive one that has stood the test of time. In fact, it still generates an outsized share of the city’s wealth today.
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